Dan Adkison bounces out of ‘Jeopardy’ with Revolutionary War question

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Time magazine copy editor Dan Adkisonended his run as a Jeopardy champion last night. Amazingly, last night’s show included a category of questions about Time magazine pieces. The Final Jeopardy question was: “This state is known as the ‘Cockpit of the Revolution’ for all the battles there, including a pivotal one in December 1776.”

Adkison guessed North Carolina. Agony! It was New Jersey. A Poynter correspondent watching the show says Adkison did get to give a response about copy-editing. Cindy Vanderbur of Madison, Ind. (where “nothing ever happens,” she says in her “Hometown Howdy”) moves on. According to a Grand Junction, Colo., Daily Sentinel article (a small portion of which is in front of a paywall), Adkison won $38,400 while he was on the show.
Among Adkison’s competition: Mike Garrett, a former newspaper editor from Kamloops, British Columbia, who told the Kamloops Daily News that Vanderbur was “a master at the buzzer.” Garrett watched 800 episodes of Jeopardy to prepare, he told BCLocalNews.com earlier this month.